altogether

[Al`to*geth·er]

If you're altogether certain, you know it for a fact. Since you're altogether sure that your calculations are correct, go ahead with the experiment. Please wear your goggles just in case.

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All together; conjointly.

Noun
informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"

Adverb
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole'' is often used informally for `wholly''); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a total

Adverb
with everything included or counted; "altogether he earns close to a million dollars"

Adverb
with everything considered (and neglecting details); "altogether, I''m sorry it happened"; "all in all, it''s not so bad"


adv.
All together; conjointly.

adv.
Without exception; wholly; completely.


Altogether

Al`to*geth"er (), adv. [OE. altogedere; al all + togedere together. See Together.] 1. All together; conjointly. [Obs.]
Altogether they wen at once.
2. Without exception; wholly; completely.
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

All together; conjointly.

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Usage Examples

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

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Other Usage Examples

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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